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A guide to go to GodA guide to goe to God
A guide to go to God: or, An explanation of the perfect pattern of prayer, the Lords prayer. By William Gouge, B. in D. and minister of Gods Word in Black-Friars LondonA guide to goe to God: or, An explanation of the perfect patterne of prayer, the Lords prayer. By William Gouge, B. in D. and minister of Gods Word in Black-Friers London
London: printed by G. Miller for Edward Brewster, 1626
Preface › Section 30: §. 30. Of preferring Gods honour before all other things.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Q. What learn we from the precedence of this Petition?
Q. VVHat learne we from the precedence of this Petition?
A. 1. Gods honour ought to be preferred before all things.
2. Gods honour is the main end whereat all our desires ought to aim.
2. Gods honour is the maine end whereat all our desires ought to aime.
The order of the Decalogue and the placing of the first commandment before all the rest, doth confirm the former of these instructions:1 so doth this exhortation, First seek the kingdom of God. All priorities are comprised under that particle, First. 2Both before and above all things is that to be sought. Christ preferred his Fathers glory before his own life: yea, and before freedom from that bitter agony whereunto he was brought, being our Surety▪ For thus in his prayer he reasoneth about that point: What shall I say? Father save me from this hour. But for this cause came I unto this hour. Father glorify thy name. And then he resteth, as in that which above all he desired. This mind by the same Spirit was wrought in Saint Paul, who counted not his life dear: